Fragano Ledgister
@fledgist.bsky.social
Retired, and handicapped, college professor.
I am Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University. That, for those who don’t know, is an HBCU located, as should be obvious from its name, in Atlanta.
I am Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Clark Atlanta University. That, for those who don’t know, is an HBCU located, as should be obvious from its name, in Atlanta.
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God help us, we let this pedophile ring up random children on Christmas Eve
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
God help us, we let this pedophile ring up random children on Christmas Eve
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December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test
The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
J. D. Vance has “clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid,” Franklin Foer argues.
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Whatever you do, don't bring up the marinara's divorce.
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Whatever you do, don't bring up the marinara's divorce.
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So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
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Steve, pleas stop singing Christmas carols. Please stop singing anything. Ever. Thanks.
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Steve, pleas stop singing Christmas carols. Please stop singing anything. Ever. Thanks.
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This was a very strange thing for him to lie about
December 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This was a very strange thing for him to lie about
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President Donald Trump announced a new class of battleships to build out what he has dubbed the Navy's "Golden Fleet" that he says will be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far -- 100 times -- more powerful than any battleship ever built."
December 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
President Donald Trump announced a new class of battleships to build out what he has dubbed the Navy's "Golden Fleet" that he says will be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far -- 100 times -- more powerful than any battleship ever built."
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Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
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My two cents, SCOTUS basically told Trump if he wants to militarize law enforcement he is going to have to go full constitutional crisis, presumably through the Insurrection Act, and send in the actual military. Not side step it with National Guard.
So... the next questions for 2026 will be:
A: Does Trump just ignore this and send the National Guard anyway, and what, if anything, will SCOTUS do about it when they are ignored?
B: Will Trump send the Army and violate Posse Comitatus?
C: Will the Court cave on what Posse Comitatus means?
A: Does Trump just ignore this and send the National Guard anyway, and what, if anything, will SCOTUS do about it when they are ignored?
B: Will Trump send the Army and violate Posse Comitatus?
C: Will the Court cave on what Posse Comitatus means?
December 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My two cents, SCOTUS basically told Trump if he wants to militarize law enforcement he is going to have to go full constitutional crisis, presumably through the Insurrection Act, and send in the actual military. Not side step it with National Guard.
Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"
English is the official language of Liberia...
English is the official language of Liberia...
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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“Noviello is the 10th person to die in ICE custody during fiscal year 2025, which runs from October, according to the agency's data. Those deaths include a Haitian woman who spent more than 10 weeks in immigration custody and was held in allegedly inhumane conditions.”
This is not normal, unacceptable, 8th person to die in ICE custody this year…
Johnny Noviello 49, was found unresponsive June 23 at Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in Miami, according to ICE. Noviello is the eighth person to die in ICE custody in 2025.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Johnny Noviello 49, was found unresponsive June 23 at Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in Miami, according to ICE. Noviello is the eighth person to die in ICE custody in 2025.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Canadian citizen dies in ICE custody; Canada 'urgently seeking more information'
Johnny Noviello, 49, was found unresponsive on June 23 at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in Miami, ICE said.
www.usatoday.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Noviello is the 10th person to die in ICE custody during fiscal year 2025, which runs from October, according to the agency's data. Those deaths include a Haitian woman who spent more than 10 weeks in immigration custody and was held in allegedly inhumane conditions.”
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“The death occurred as private companies with little to no oversight are increasingly tasked with transporting more immigration detainees across the US, in pursuit of the Trump administration’s recently-announced target of arresting 3,000 people a day.”
A 68-year-old Mexican-born man has become the first ICE detainee in at least a decade to die while being transported. Experts warn there will likely be more such deaths amid the current administration’s “mass deportation” push across the US. ca.news.yahoo.com/ticking-time...
‘Ticking time bomb’: Ice detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely
Guardian reporting reveals confusing and contradictory events surrounding death of Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado
ca.news.yahoo.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“The death occurred as private companies with little to no oversight are increasingly tasked with transporting more immigration detainees across the US, in pursuit of the Trump administration’s recently-announced target of arresting 3,000 people a day.”
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Raskin: "If you can opt out of mandatory classroom readings bc it offends your religious objections, you can do it bc it offends your philosophical beliefs... you're gonna have a lot of cases where ppl say 'Our family doesn't believe in evolution. We don't want our kid in class when it's taught'"
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Raskin: "If you can opt out of mandatory classroom readings bc it offends your religious objections, you can do it bc it offends your philosophical beliefs... you're gonna have a lot of cases where ppl say 'Our family doesn't believe in evolution. We don't want our kid in class when it's taught'"
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court upheld part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to offer some preventive care at no cost to patients.
Justices Uphold Preventive Care Provision in Affordable Care Act
The case stemmed from a lawsuit brought by conservatives seeking to block free preventive care, including medicine to prevent H.I.V. transmission.
trib.al
June 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Breaking News: The Supreme Court upheld part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurance companies to offer some preventive care at no cost to patients.
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One of these days I will win, cat!
June 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
One of these days I will win, cat!
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This widespread video claims to show a crowd dancing to Arabic music in New York City after Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, won the Democratic mayoral primary.
In fact, it shows Shiite Muslims taking part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala, Iraq in August 2024.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
In fact, it shows Shiite Muslims taking part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala, Iraq in August 2024.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
June 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This widespread video claims to show a crowd dancing to Arabic music in New York City after Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, won the Democratic mayoral primary.
In fact, it shows Shiite Muslims taking part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala, Iraq in August 2024.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
In fact, it shows Shiite Muslims taking part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala, Iraq in August 2024.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
publications.aap.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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New from me, @caylabam.bsky.social and Emma Seiwell — sources tell us that 100-120 ICE detainees are currently held at MDC Brooklyn, notorious for hellish conditions.
Props to the Miami Herald, which was 1st to report that MDC was chosen to hold ICE detainees.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/25/i...
Props to the Miami Herald, which was 1st to report that MDC was chosen to hold ICE detainees.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/25/i...
ICE detainees now being held in ‘horrific’ MDC Brooklyn federal jail
More than 100 ICE detainees are now being housed at the notorious MDC Brooklyn federal jail, along with the likes of Sean “Diddy” Combs and alleged CEO-killer Luigi Mangione, multiple s…
www.nydailynews.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New from me, @caylabam.bsky.social and Emma Seiwell — sources tell us that 100-120 ICE detainees are currently held at MDC Brooklyn, notorious for hellish conditions.
Props to the Miami Herald, which was 1st to report that MDC was chosen to hold ICE detainees.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/25/i...
Props to the Miami Herald, which was 1st to report that MDC was chosen to hold ICE detainees.
www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/25/i...
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PSA | Apparently this image is so dangerous it will get you automatically deported on arrival in the USA.
It is therefore imperative that you do not - I repeat DO NOT - distribute it as widely as possible.
It is therefore imperative that you do not - I repeat DO NOT - distribute it as widely as possible.
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
PSA | Apparently this image is so dangerous it will get you automatically deported on arrival in the USA.
It is therefore imperative that you do not - I repeat DO NOT - distribute it as widely as possible.
It is therefore imperative that you do not - I repeat DO NOT - distribute it as widely as possible.